Fernando Cervigón

Fernando Cervigón Marcos (born Valencia on 15 May 1930, died Caracas 17 May 2017) was a Spanish ichthyologist and marine biologist, who lived most of his life in Venezuela. He discovered and described numerous species of fish including the Caribbean roughshark and is author of numerous works on fish and Venezuela's ocean environment including Los Peces Marinos de Venezuela. He was the president of the Museo del Mar on Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela.

Early life Fernando Cervigón Marcos was born in Valencia, Spain, on 15 May 1930. His secondary education was undertaken at the Colegio de Hermans Maristas between 1940 and 1948. In 1948 he matriculated at the University of Barcelona and he graduated for there with a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences. He completed a post-graduate course in 1958 and obtained a doctorate in Biological Sciences in 1964. His thesis for his doctorate was entitled Los Peces Marinos de Venezuela ("The marine fishes of Venezuela") and was classified as "outstanding cum laude". In 1960 he had moved to Venezuela settling in the Macanao Peninsula on Margarita Island where he began to study the fish. The West African catshark, Scyliorhinus cervigoni Maurin & Bonnet, 1970 The finspot ray, Rostroraja cervigoni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1964)